The Denver City Council returns to chambers on Monday with a full agenda, including three proclamations and two half-hour courtesy public comment sessions.

Items of particular interest include Council Bill 25-0920, which proposes asking Denver voters to approve an amendment to the Charter of the City and County of Denver concerning the manner in which at-large council members are elected.

Currently, the council’s at-large candidates with the highest and second-highest number of votes on a single ballot are elected, regardless of the percentage of the vote.

Instead of voting for both at-large members on one ballot, voters would choose them separately on two ballots — At-Large A and At-Large B.

City officials argue that the “single-shot” voting incentivizes voters “to waste their second vote in order not to harm the chances of their first-choice candidate from winning.”

Denver’s At-Large positions are the only city offices not elected by a majority of the votes.

Over the past nine municipal elections, an average of nearly one-third of all potential at-large votes have been left blank, more than 12 times the amount of under-voting for mayor, the city’s website said.

Along the same line, the council will also hear public comment on another proposed amendment to the city charter and its companion bill concerning ranked choice run-off voting.

In instant-runoff voting — sometimes called ranked-choice voting — a candidate who wins a majority of the first-choice votes is the winner.

However, if no candidate obtains a majority, the one with the fewest first-choice votes is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed to the voters’ second-choice choices. The process is then repeated until a candidate earns a majority vote.

In the 3:30 p.m. session, the council will issue a proclamation honoring Owen Bringer,  Councilmember Amanda Sawyer’s senior aid for his service to the city and to District 5.

Two proclamations will be presented in the 5:30 p.m. session.

The first will honor the life and legacy of André Pettigrew, who held several leadership positions with the city, including Executive Director of Denver’s Office of Economic Development under Mayor John Hickenlooper.

The second proclamation will acknowledge and support Denver’s Community Energy Commitment, a plan to transform the city’s energy landscape and reduce environmental impact.

The Denver City Council will hold its regular meeting on Monday at 3:30 p.m., with the general public comment session scheduled to begin at 5 p.m.